Re-engineering Assessment Practices in Higher Education

"..if we want students to develop critical thinking, judgement and autonomy in assignment production they should be provided with high-level evaluative experiences similar to those of experts. Peer review, students evaluating and commenting on each other's work, is one way to achieve this'

What is the PEER project?

PEER stands for Peer Evaluation in Education Review

the PEER project has received funding (2010-11) from the Joint Information Systems Committee (JISC) under its Innovation Grants scheme

the project is led by the University of Strathclyde

the PEER project will identify educational designs and software tools that support learning through peer review

it will also pilot and evaluate peer review implementations

Why is the PEER project important?

the PEER project builds on the REAP project and has two core premises

that learning will be significantly enhanced when students engage in regular activities where they make evaluative judgements about their own and others work

that making judgements and giving feedback is cognitively more productive for learning than receiving feedback

the peer project will explore ways of harnessing technology to make peer review easy and cost-effective to implement

The intended outputs

synthesis of the literature on peer review using technology

a range of educational designs for the implementation of peer review

evaluation of software systems that will support peer review

results from a pilot and evaluation of some peer review implementations